On this date…March 4 launch of STS-62

#OTD in 1993…Endeavour launched a new NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.

#OTD…The maiden launch of shuttle Endeavour in 1992 to rescue the Intelsat 603 satellite

The final manned Mercury mission was launched atop an Atlas rocket on this day in 1963 with Gordon Cooper aboard Faith 7 for a 34-hour, 22-orbit flight.